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A necessary geometric condition for the existence of certain homoclinic orbits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. F. Toland
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY

Extract

Throughout this brief note V denotes a fixed, smooth, real-valued function on such that there exists a bounded, open, strictly convex set C with (the boundary of C), V > 0 in C, V = 0 on and V′(0) = 0.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1986

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